Security Research
Microsoft released its monthly set of security updates to address the vulnerabilities in its products today. There are 39 vulnerabilities listed with 9 rated critical and 30 rated important in severity. These updates have addressed the issues in Adobe Flash Player, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, ChakraCore, .NET Framework, etc. Zero-day attacks Two […]
Read More →Image Source: wikimedia.org Apple released a set of security updates for its products this month. There are ten products which received the updates including Apple’s new brain child, MacOS Mojave which was newly launched in September. This update addresses a set of 26 vulnerabilities. And, the products listed under this update are macOS Mojave 10.14.2, […]
Read More →January 2018 saw the rise of Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities concerning speculative execution side channels. A subclass of speculative execution side-channel vulnerability, termed as Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) was announced by Microsoft in collaboration with Google researchers, and was assigned CVE-2018-3639. While Microsoft released several updates as a fix to this vulnerability, some additional measures […]
Read More →This November, Microsoft released monthly security patches covering total 63 vulnerabilities, with 12 of them rated critical, 47 are rated Important, one is rated Moderate and three are Low in Severity. These vulnerabilities impact Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps, ChakraCore, .NET Core, Skype for Business, […]
Read More →Overview: The Microsoft has re-released a patch for CVE-2017-8529 to fix a print issue related to this vulnerability. The patch is not fully applied unless certain registry keys are set even after installing the respective Operating System patches. This article describes the steps to update registry settings to be fully protected from this vulnerability. Affected OS: […]
Read More →Adobe, this Tuesday as always released its monthly set of security advisories for vulnerabilities that have been identified and addressed in various products. This month’s advisory release addresses 4 advisories with 16 vulnerabilities, with 4 of them rated critical, 10 are rated important and 2 as moderate in severity. These vulnerabilities impact Adobe Technical Communications Suite, Adobe Framemaker, […]
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